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garbage collection and Tkinter

Brian E Gallew geek+ at cmu.edu
Thu Jun 1 14:08:04 EDT 2000 
I've got a Tkinter script that runs for a long time, creating and
destroying many windows (it's a zephyr client, if that means anything
to you).  Over time, this process grows to be excessivly large
(30-40MB before I get around to killing it).  I've satisfied myself
that it isn't a leak in my C module, as if I just do file logging it
doesn't seem to get so big.  

To finally get around to the point of all this rambling: is there a
relatively easy way to examine the garbage collector to see why it is
or is not collecting things?  I would not be at all surprised to find
circular loops in my Tk widgets, but I don't know where to find them...



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